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H. W. RANSOM.

TWO WHEELED VEHICLE.

No. 326,587. Patented sept. 22, 1885.

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TWO WHEELBD VEHICLE.

No. 826,587. Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

HIRAM IV. RANSOM, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE EMERSON & FISHER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,587, dated September 22, 1885.

Application filed June Q6, 1883. (No model.)

.To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HIRAM W. RANsoM, a resident of the city of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Two- Vheeled Vehicles, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates, particularly, to the manner of connecting the springs to the platform and the body to the springs.

The precise nature and objects, the several features of my invention, and the several advantages resulting from their use together, or otherwise, will be apparent from the following description.

Referring to the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a side elevation of a vehicle constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same slightly enlarged. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the bottom of the vehicle. Fig. 4 is an enlarged side elevation of the spring, body, and a portion of the running-gear. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view of the connection between the end of one of the springs and the platform.

A is the body, supported by mechanism on the two wheels A.

The shafts B extend rearwardly beyond the axle a, and are connected to said axle by brackets b, and in front and rear of the axle the shaftsare connected by cross-bars B', which cross-bars and the rear ends of the shafts thus form a platform by which the body is supported through the intervention of the springs.

Below the rear cross-bar B is a rod, C, extending parallel to said bar and from spring to spring. Each end of the rod C is supported by a clasp, el, connected to said cross-bar, and to each end of this rod is connected a shackle, D, the shackles being rigidly connected to said rod, so that as the rod is turned both of the shackles connected thereto will also turn. Preferably, also, a rod, C. is located under the forward cross-bar B', and runs parallel to said bar. This rod may preferably be of similar length to rod C, and be similarly supported in a clip, d, connected intervening 5o to said cross-bar, and each end of the rod C is connected to a shackle, D, the shackles being rigidly connected to said rod C', so that as the latter is turned both of the shackles connected thereto will also turn.

At each side of the platform is a longitudinal spring, E, the front ends of said springs being connected to the shackles D of the front rod, C, and the rear ends of the springs being connected to the shackles D of the rear rod, C. Each of the springs E is preferably shaped substantially as shown in Fig. 4, the high portion e being preferably nearer the rear than the front end of the spring. Near the front of this high portion e is a crossbar, F, and near the rear of said high portion c is a cross-bar, F, both of said crossbars extending from one of the springs E to the other, the ends of said cross-bars being secured to the springs by appropriate clips, e. The body A rests upon these cross-bars F F.

In a body cut away at rear, substantially such as shown in the drawings, the front part of the body rests upon the front cross-bar, F', and the rear part of the body being higher than the front part rests upon supports f of any suitable form, (but preferably of the shape shown,) placed between the bottom of the body and the rear crossbar, F, and connected to said body, and also to said cross-bar F, or, when preferred, may be connected to the spring instead of said crossbar. If, however, the bottom of the body is straight, these supports f will be omitted, the body resting directly on both of the cross-bars F F.

From the above it will be seen that the front and rear ends of the springs upon which the body is supported are connected to equalizing-rods,so that when one side of the body is depressed the spring at that side of the body will be extended, which will cause a rotation of the equalizing-rods, which movement will cause the extension of the spring at the opposite side of the body, and thus both springs are brought into play and the body will be evenly depressed.

If desired, but one end of the springs Eneed be connected to an equalizing-rod, the other ends being connected to one and the same cross-bar B by suitable shackles.

What I claim as new and of my invention7 F F', att-ached directly to the longitudinal y and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is springs E, in combination with the shafts B 1. In a two-wheeled vehicle, the combinaand crossibars B and equalizing-rods C, contiou of the body supported on longitudinal nected tosaid cross-barsbyappropriate clasps, x 5 5 springs and a supporting-platform, the springs the ends of the springs E being connected to being.lr connected at one or both ends to the said equalizing-rods, substantially as and for shackles D, the latter being in turn rigidly I the purposes specified.

secured to the equalizing-rods C C', and the HIRAM W. RANSOM. said equalizing-rods attached to the platform, Vitnesses: ro substantially as and for the purpose specified. J. WM. STREHLI,

2. The body A, resting on transverse bars ED. R. HILL. 

